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RDD: A Special Guest
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week The Rough Draft Diaries will take a brief break in its line of connections to give you the opportunity to meet Amanda Lucidon. During Bar...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
NL 18-09: The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby, 2/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Author Mary Lahr Schier, From Apples to Zinnias: The Northern Gardener
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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A conversation with author Mary Lahr Schier about her northern climate gardening book.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 15:40
Code Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Liza Mundy
The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter is cemented in America’s history and imagination. Meanwhile the book and movie Hidden Figures ignited an inte...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Honey From a Weed: The Life of Patience Gray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Patience Gray in her flat in London, circa 1960. Photo by Stefan Buzás. Courtesy of Nicholas Gray.
A weed might be said to represent valuelessness, and worse perhaps, a thing which actively devalues what many consider to be the proper and true wa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 1
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
"Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" w/ author Susan Quinn
From: Out of Bounds
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Lively and informative discussion w/Author Susan Quinn as we focus on her bestseller "Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady"

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sargent's Women (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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During the Gilded Age, to be painted by John Singer Sargent was the thing to do. He captured high society in all its glitz and glam. But the storie...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age

Bought by WJCT, WNSB, WCQS, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped the First Lady
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Susan Quinn
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took up residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 1932, Eleanor looked upon the move to the White House with...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions at the nation's universities - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female pre...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female candidates for president - The u...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Barbara Van Cleve - 262
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Ranch photographer Barbara Van Cleve talks about making her images and the "romance" of the West.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KUPR low power FM, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lynn Sherr, author of "Sally Ride"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with longtime ABC broadcaster Lynn Sherr about her book, "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space."

  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 30:31
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Highest Glass Ceiling
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Fitzpatrick
Since the late 1800s four women have run for the office of US president.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Founding Friendships (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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There’s a perennial question in romantic comedies, novels, and even self-help books: can men and women ever be just friends? One Virginia scholar a...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
Founding Friendships (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-American men and women have maintained close friendships since our country’s founding. -When it comes to racism or sexism, why aren’t good intenti...

Bought by WJCT, KSFR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Founding Friendships (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-American men and women have maintained close friendships since our country’s founding. -When it comes to racism or sexism, why aren’t good intenti...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Madam Next Door (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until ...

Bought by KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 3
Mary 4 Martha 3 NO Footnotes: a play by Cate Belleveau
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Producer Tammy Bobrowsky talks with playwright, Cate Belleveau about her new play "Mary 4 Martha 3 NO Footnotes," and also two actors from the play...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 13:17
Drink Local (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-How local breweries foster communities. -The story of an unrecognized founding father -The challenges of being a nurse in northern Alaska. And mor...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2